We got to know a girl named Mae while we were teaching the Bible at her public high school down in Palawan. We helped her financially so that she was able to finish high school, being the first in the family of 6 kids to do so. But she had been complaining for about a year of her stomach hurting her off and on. We had thought it was taken care of after taking an antibiotic for a urinary tract infection. The Lord has since moved us back to Manila and we are no longer living close to Mae. A missionary friend down there was kind enough to take her to a Dr. for us. A ultrasound revealed either a mass, which could possibly be cancerous, or a large kidney stone was the culprit of her pain. It was recommended to get a 2nd opinion and a C.T. scan done in Manila. Not knowing what to expect or where the money was going to come from, we said to send her up to us. So on Thursday, when we heard of this, Mae, who had never flown before or been further than 20 miles from home, was put on a plane bound for us on Friday am. We were told that it was more likely a stone and she may need to have it blasted or may need surgery. With ultrasounds in hand, showing the stone to be 8mm, we went straight to the Dr. from the airport. He agreed that there was a problem and ordered a CT scan saying we could know the results in 24 hours. Saturday afternoon I asked Mae how her pain was. For 30 plus hours she hadn’t had any pain and without taking any pain pills. I told her, wow, I think the Lord is doing something special in your body. We went to the Dr. and he said the stone was gone! She either passed the stone with basically no pain, which is virtually unheard of, or the Lord just took it away. We know it was all the Lord’s doing. This has been a mile stone 🙂 in her young Christian life, seeing the Lord work a miracle just for her. It is a reminder to her that we have a personal God who knows and cares. The next day in Church as we stood singing “How Great is Our God” we looked at each other thinking about all that the Lord had done. She threw her arms around me, hugged me so tight and just sobbed and sobbed. We stood holding each other crying the entire song because we were so blessed at how Great our God is.
Then after Church is when Mae said, “I don’t want to sleep” because she was heading back down the next day and wanted to see as much of Manila as she could. So we took her and Durita to the Ocean Park. Durita came to help one of our missionaries down south and we were doing some of her orientation to the Philippines. We all had a lot of fun and it was great for us to see Mae enjoy it all so much. Durita was able to travel back down with Mae so that she had a companion. Thank you for praying for us and our ministry. We never know from one day to the next what ministry the Lord has in store for us, but He does wonderful things like this in response to your prayers and support.